Samantha Stone
Columbus
Summary
Results-driven Enterprise Software Engineer with extensive experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise solutions. Expertise includes configuration and integration of key modules, such as Order-to-Cash processes, and EDI. Proficient in troubleshooting, testing, and deploying enhancements that improve system efficiency and user experience. Strong collaborator with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and develop solutions that ensure seamless integration with other modules. Consistently deliver high-quality results under tight deadlines while prioritizing process improvement and customer satisfaction.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SAP Enterprise Implementation Consultant
APARCO Consulting Inc.
11.2023 - 11.2025
- Perform configuration and deployment changes within SAP S/4HANA.
- Gather business requirements and current processes to identify opportunities to drive efficiency and effectiveness for the business.
- Define and provide strategies to optimize business processes across the Order-To-Cash realm, from order processing to invoicing.
- Design and execute test plans to validate configuration and code to ensure they meet business requirements and do not interrupt the application functionality and its interfaces.
- Author and maintain SOPs, test scripts, process flows and architectural diagrams.
- Provide training and support to end-users on system functionality and best practices.
- Integrate with other SAP modules and interfaces as needed.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues for post-deployment/hypercare support.
- Provide client feedback on recommended standard functionality or guidance and suggestions around custom changes vs. standard.
SAP Sales & Distribution Software Engineer
Cardinal Health
08.2019 - 08.2023
- Serve as a techno-functional SME with a focus on SD Order-to-Cash and all connected modules and interfaces.
- Provide knowledge and support on a variety of OTC related segments including, but not limited to, order management, pricing discrepancies, material determination, inclusions/exclusions, scheduled lines determination, output control, WMS, invoicing, EDI and system config.
- Functionally gather requirements, lead process design, provide peer reviews with internal business partners.
- Complete and deploy ServiceNow Changes for defects and enhancements.
- Maintain standard and custom configuration within the SAP OTC realm.
- Write and record test scripts within validated system, ValGenesis.
- Manage business’ UAT testing to ensure flawless integration/deployment.
- Perform unit, system, integration, regression, and functional testing in any or all SAP testing environments.
- Build SOPs for the internal team and business partners around SAP OTC functionality.
- Analyze code failures followed with communication on resolution to the business, as well as fix and reissue idocs.
- Monitor, modify and create batch jobs that support S&D (e.g. order jobs, delivery due list jobs, billing due list jobs etcetera.
- Identify root cause on sudden matters involving Order to Cash and corresponding integrated applications.
- Prioritize based upon urgency and impact with addition to on-call support for critical outages and emergencies via Service Restoration bridge calls.
- Build LSMW jobs for interim workarounds and urgent matters requiring MASS changes.
EDI Consultant
Cardinal Health
02.2017 - 08.2019
- Facilitate and implement flawless EDI setup projects, in support of OTC, for vendors utilizing ANSI x12 through direct connect, SFTP, VAN and Axway.
- Manage transaction types: 850, 855, 856, 860, 865, 997, 845, 832, 810.
- Drive end to end vendor setups/changes/decommissions and provide full analysis based upon requirements, connection type and system compatibilities for the OTC segment.
- Collaborate with 3rd party EDI vendors to communicate and identify paramount implementation setups and/or changes to meet vendor needs given capabilities and requirements.
- Exceeding quantitative goals with managing and completing all EDI incidents, tasks, defects and enhancements via ServiceNow.
- Identify, research, troubleshoot and resolve idoc failures.
- Write and test scripts, as well as manage the business’ UAT testing utilizing non-production and production SAP (ECC) environments pre- and post-implementations.
- Build OTC EDI related SOPs and KT documents to provide training opportunities as well as improve internal processes within EDI as well as for the internal businesses.
- Manage and update SAP EDPAR entries, input and output controls/determinations.
- Collaborate with OpenText run and build support to implement map changes, debug and analyze mappings.
- Gather vendor requirements and provide streamlined processes to support the needs required.
MDG SAP Software Engineer
Cardinal Health
10.2015 - 02.2017
- Techno-Functional role to stand up SAP MDG system with onboarding the Canada business segment from their application.
- Heavily communicated with the Canada business team to record departmental processes and required system fields, values and corresponding functionality.
- Actively lead and provide expert guidance on SAP MDG’s functionality to multiple business partners to align proper mappings between systems, especially in the OTC realm.
- Work closely with the MDG Developer to implement sequential configuration and mappings.
- Conclude SAP MDG MM field/value usage with Canada’s requirements while avoiding any unnecessary customization.
- Communicate with business leadership to understand impact on certain migration decisions and implement last minute critical solutions.Write test scripts for the business to perform pre and post go-live UAT while also performing the same in parallel for validity.
- Analyze, debug and fix any soft and hard failures within Fiori and SAP OTC, as well as inbound and outbound idocs.
- Testing: Unit, Integration, Functional, Regression, User Acceptance.
- Analyze, troubleshoot and fix any bugs post go-live.
COPA Profitability Analytics Financial Advisor
Cardinal Health
10.2014 - 10.2015
- Within the FI space, executing and documenting daily, weekly and monthly activities relating to the Controlling Profitability Analysis (COPA) close processes, which includes system job execution, data loading and validation, restatements, analytical data investigation and troubleshooting within MBT and HANA/ADW.
- Serve as advisor to address data issues/opportunities, profitability model governance, and user communication and comprehension.
- Respond to adhoc requests for data manipulation and data usage/visualization.
- Maintenance of conversion and engineering standard tables.
- Participation in projects related to mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and software implementations as necessitated by their impact to the COPA methodology.
- Training colleagues on COPA methodology and monthly close processes.
Account Receivables Sr. Consultant
Cardinal Health
03.2013 - 10.2014
- Responsible for disputed AR of over $54M/mo. for accounts nationwide.
- Strategic accounts, IDNs, large hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
- Conducting complex and thoroughly detailed analyses of account/billing discrepancies and supplying resolution while providing transparent and relationship-sustaining customer service.
- Including, but not limited to; matched exception reconciling, master data/partner structure clean-up, EDI resolution, updating account output types.
- Work collaboratively with purchasing management and directors to negotiate account settlements and/or large billing matters.
- Streamlining and implementing strategic processes that are uniquely designed to improve work flow between parties and drive financial results internally and externally in support of OTC.
- Coordinating projects internally and externally to remedy complex matters.
- Providing resolution to discrepant invoicing and account reconciliation.
- Training new hires and colleagues on role responsibilities.
- TARN Certified
Education
BBA - Business Administration
Franklin University
Columbus, OHAssociate of Science - Business Management
Columbus State Community College
Columbus, OHSkills
- SAP, Oracle, S/4HANA, EDI, OTC, MDG, Fiori
- ServiceNow, Change-Management
- Configuration, Integration, Optimization
- Deployment, Hypercare, Governance
- Troubleshooting, Testing, Mapping, Automation
- Reconciliation, Analytics
- Ownership, Enablement, Collaboration, Prioritization, Advisory
Certification
Coursera - Google Cloud Platform Certifications
Timeline
SAP Enterprise Implementation Consultant
APARCO Consulting Inc.
11.2023 - 11.2025
SAP Sales & Distribution Software Engineer
Cardinal Health
08.2019 - 08.2023
EDI Consultant
Cardinal Health
02.2017 - 08.2019
MDG SAP Software Engineer
Cardinal Health
10.2015 - 02.2017
COPA Profitability Analytics Financial Advisor
Cardinal Health
10.2014 - 10.2015
Account Receivables Sr. Consultant
Cardinal Health
03.2013 - 10.2014
BBA - Business Administration
Franklin University
Associate of Science - Business Management
Columbus State Community College